Saying that “work has to start right away”, Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski has backed Poland’s bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
He added, “if we want to co-host such an event in 2022, we have to start working on it today”.
Bronislaw said, “the funds should be spent on the ‘famous’ motorway leading to Zakopane, which as of now does not meet the standards for such a big international event”. The road links the tourist centres of Krakow and the mountain resort of Zakopane as among the priorities for hosting the Games.
He said that it was a joint bid with Slovakia, and coordinating the project must begin right away. “We need to build cooperation with our Slovak neighbours. We could not prepare this bid without them because our Tatra mountains are not as big as those in Slovakia”.
The plan shows that Krakow, in southern Poland, would host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and the city would host the majority of the events played on ice, while Zakopane, Poland’s winter tourist capital, would host snowboarding, cross country skiing, and the biathlon.
Slovakia would organize several skiing events and some of the ice hockey fixtures.
A letter of intent has been signed by the heads of the Olympic committees of Poland and Slovakia. The official candidacy is to be announced this year.
The host city will be elected July 31, 2015 at the 127th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur.
